THE HILLMANNS OF BROOKLYN
CHAPTER 47
1933
Cuba
Marian stands on the deck of the Morro Castle on way to Cuba in 1933. Stormy Weather was a hit song. 16 months after this photo was taken, on September 8, 1934 a fire aboard this passenger liner, Morro Castle killed 134 people off the New Jersey coast.
Here she is enjoying herself with a cute guy.
King Kong premiered in 1933 at Radio City Music Hall which had just been built in 1932.
Also in 1933 the Nazis built their first concentration camp, Dachau.
I wonder if this car, or at least parts of it, are still running in Cuba.
Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba in 1492. Construction on the fortress began in the 1760s when Spain and England were fighting over Florida and Caribbean islands.
The Hillmanns are enjoying their vacation as the world is going nuts. Nazis are burning books. Gandhi is hunger striking in protest. Roosevelt declares the ownership of gold illegal.
Antique post card Playa De Mariano
Note the cigar
The Depression did not seem to affect the Hillmanns, Herman worked for a boiler company, and had been employed there since the early 1900s. Marian was a fifth grade school teacher. Neither ever lost their job.
In 1898 the US Battleship Maine was blown up in Havana Harbor, costing 268 men their lives. This was the beginning of the Spanish American War.
The explosion of the battleship Maine was withing the living memory of Rose and Herman.
Milton Stone and Marion
Morro Castle was completed in 1589
It looks a lot like our Capital.
I don't know who he is.
Hillmanns albums come out on Tuesdays. Next week we are back to playing with Marian and her friends stateside in Rockaway, Atlantic City and NYC
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